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...findings will filter out, in phone calls to Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, in his own writing and speeches. The trip was his; his idea, his arrangements. The flap about who knew, or didn't know, where he was going and what he was doing is ridiculous, meaningless. Nixon brushes by the subject as he focuses on a larger problem...
...wake of Sadat's murder, how was tribute paid to the memory of this man? With wreaths of weaponry, offered Sin the name of peace. As a war ing to Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, whose country as a veritable Soviet arsenal, U.S Secretary of State Alexander Haig promised to speed shipments of new bombers and tanks to Egypt. An American, delegation visited the Sudan where Libya's Soviet-supplied jets have been bombing border villages, and promised to try to deliver quickly $100 million worth of military equipment to a jittery President Gaafar Nimeiri. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Margaret...
Reagan Administration decided on a military response. At the end of his trip to Cairo to attend Sadat's funeral, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the U.S. was ready to accelerate and increase the supply of arms to both Egypt and its southern ally, the Sudan. Furthermore, said Haig, the U.S. would take part next month in a "very extensive joint military exercise" with Egyptian forces. The Pentagon also sent out two AW ACS planes to patrol the skies of Egypt and the Sudan against possible Libyan attack, and was considering a bombing run on Egyptian desert...
...Haig described the U.S. supply buildup as merely a "sign of reassurance," adding: "There are indications of increasing Libyan activity and threats to peaceful nations in the region." Haig also talked in Cairo with Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, whose border villages have been strafed by Libyan planes. Nimeiri says he fears a Libyan invasion, although some European diplomats in Khartoum believe the situation is not as serious as he has portrayed...
...nearly two years a Soviet expeditionary force of 85,000 troops has propped up Afghanistan's Communist regime against a motley but tenacious resistance movement. Soviet intervention in Afghanistan has become a chronic irritant in East-West relations: Secretary of State Alexander Haig reiterated U.S. outrage in his talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations a month ago, and the Afghanistan issue will probably be debated in the U.N. General Assembly next month. Most Western press coverage of the conflict has come from listening posts in Pakistan and India and from reporters who have slipped...